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Commission reviews Climate Action Plan structure, equity section and outreach schedule
Summary
Sustainability staff told commissioners the draft Climate Action Plan uses generation-based accounting and proposed a shorter executive summary; commissioners asked for more accessible messaging, equity clarifications and for staff to circulate a memo and draft letter ahead of a February council introduction.
Sustainability staff told the Ithaca City Sustainability Commission that the draft Climate Action Plan relies on generation-based greenhouse-gas accounting and standard local methodologies rather than consumption-based or full life-cycle analysis, and asked commissioners to help refine the plan's equity and vulnerabilities sections.
At the meeting staff said the plan uses county-normalized data and the EPA WARM tool to estimate waste-related emissions and that…
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